Activism cornerstones
By Mark Heywood, Kaushik Gupta
Irrespective of context, Mark Heywood’s article Activism and Civil Society: What it is and What it’s Not will serve as a good ‘refresher’ for activists of all hues.
Bioscope of your intimate dreams!
By Mark Heywood, Kaushik Gupta
Irrespective of context, Mark Heywood’s article Activism and Civil Society: What it is and What it’s Not will serve as a good ‘refresher’ for activists of all hues.
By Pawan Dhall
Varta brings you the ‘Queer Kolkata Oral History Project’, an initiative to document five decades of queer lives in Kolkata (1960-2000). Our aim in this project is to go back in...
By Pallav Bonerjee, Subhojit Banerjea
There used to be a time when I wondered what it would be like to reside in a mental health hospital for a while.
By Pawan Dhall, Vahista Dastoor
Hasn’t the subject of gender and sexuality been done to death? Isn’t it all over the media in ever more tantalizing formats?
By Avinaba Dutta, Hari Chettri
The 70th Independence Day could have had new meaning for queer people in India, but for India’s abstention on a recent UNHRC resolution to protect the rights of queer people....
By Pawan Dhall
Varta brings you the ‘Queer Kolkata Oral History Project’, an initiative to document five decades of queer lives in Kolkata (1960-2000). Our aim in this project is to go back in...
By Shampa Sengupta
Shampa Sengupta answers a reader query on dos and don'ts in helping people with disabilities
By Pawan Dhall
Pawan Dhall does a photo round-up of the ‘21st International AIDS Conference’ held at Durban, South Africa from July 18-22, 2016 The international biennial on HIV (human immuno-deficiency virus) and AIDS...